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Everything I've written during the Titans' two-year uniform change

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Here’s a handy collection of everything I’ve written about the Titans uniform change since Amy Adams Strunk told me a change was in the works way back at training camp in 2016.

Titans owner considering uniform changes for 2018

Aug. 3, 2016 (at ESPN.com)evolved

“We can refresh and they definitely could use a little updating, but it takes a while to get that done,” Strunk told ESPN.com at Monday’s training camp practice. “I kind of visited with the league office about it a little bit a couple months ago. But we got so busy that I didn’t go back to it.

Titans uniform alterations for 2018 are complete; Amy Adams Strunk: 'It's not minor'

Aug. 1, 2017

It’s not minor. It’s not a total color change or anything like that. I think everybody is going to be very pleased with where it went.”

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Two more clues on Titans' new uniforms

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Wednesday evening, we’ll see once and for all what is real and what is not.

UniformTeaseWill the big celebration of what the Titans have deemed their "tradition evolved" culminate with more oohs and ahhs or groans?

A lot of people seem to think they know for sure that stuff floating around the internet is real.

I don’t know how they are so certain. The Titans didn't show us much, but the video tease from a few weeks ago (pictured here) doesn't match up to the recent "leak" to my eyes.

At this point, I'll wait and see.

But here are two new things I do know.

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Amy Adams Strunk on nepotism on Titans' coaching staff: 'I'm not my dad'

mdi construction barNASHVILLE, Tenn. -- His daughter doesn’t remember why Bud Adams had such a hard line against sons working for their fathers with the Titans, but she knows he did.

“I don’t know where he got such a strong feeling on it,” Amy Adams Strunk said at the recent owners’ meetings. “But he did have a strong feeling on it.”StrunkOwners2

I think it came out of the Jeff Fisher-Floyd Reese era. Reese’s son worked with him in the front office in some sort of assistant capacity late in his Reese’s term as general manager.

Fisher tried to hire his son, Brandon, at the end of his tenure.

And Gregg Williams was a candidate to come back as defensive coordinator at one point but didn’t when the team would not also

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Guest column: Preds fans should pump the brakes on Eeli Tolvanen train

By John Glennon, guest columnist

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The hype surrounding Nashville Predators prospect Eeli Tolvanen is so great that one longtime team observer figured Tolvanen simply strolled across the Atlantic Ocean en route to Music City.

Alas, walking on water is one of the few things not on the lengthy resume of the 18 year-old Tolvanen, a Finnish native who signed his first NHL contract Thursday morning. The 2017 first-round pick is likely to make his Predators debut Saturday, when Nashville hosts the Buffalo Sabres.Tolvanen

(Photo: Tolvanen at developmental camp, courtesy Nashville Predators.)

Tolvanen's already made a huge impact on the professional hockey front this season, as he racked up 36 points (19 goals, 17 assists) in 49 games for his Jokerit team in Finland. It was the most productive season ever for a teenager in Russia's KHL, which is considered the second-best league in the world.

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Amy Adams Strunk didn't connect with Mike Mularkey during his exit, says she admired his contribution

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IMG 0229Mike Mularkey had no bigger advocate than Amy Adams Strunk, and still, she signed off on firing him with a year left on his contract.

Mularkey and his staff failed to maximize what they had to work with, and he was simply too stubborn.

Yes, he took his team to consecutive 9-7 records with a playoff trip and a wild-card win in 2017.

Even so, the franchise decided he was not the right guy to take the Titans forward.

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Amy Adams Strunk says NFL is now quiet about Titans' ownership, confirms plan is for Kenneth Adams to take over

mdi construction barORLANDO, Fla. – The third of the Titans and KSA Industries owned by Susie Adams Smith remains for sale but nothing is pending, according to Amy Adams Strunk.IMG 7412

“She has not sold it yet, but she would like to sell it,” Strunk said.

Strunk is either not liquid enough or doesn’t have enough to buy her sister out, but she also doesn’t feel like she needs to.

“If I could (I’d buy it), but I’m happy with where I am right now,” she said.

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Titans' playbook construction near completion

mdi construction barORLANDO, Fla. -- Playbook authorship fascinates me.

Piecing together philosophies built from years in different places at different levels with different people and combining all that with a roster viewed only on film is a tough job.

There will be a lot of tinkering as the Titans go forward.

But while Mike Vrabel fulfilled his obligations as the owners' meetings, Dean Pees and Matt LaFleur continued to work on the Titans playbooks.

My video report:

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